Foster System Quotes

#1. I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Angela Featherstone

#3. I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

Jodie Foster

#4. In other words, Cantor is able to show that real numbers themselves can serve as the limits of fundamental sequences of reals, meaning his system of definitions is self-enclosed and VIR-proof.

David Foster Wallace

#5. It would make things easier for both of us, especially for you, if we could forgo the part of this conversation where you take me for a complete idiot...

Sylvain Neuvel

#6. Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#7. I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

James McAvoy

#8. The Ileenium system?

Alan Dean Foster

#9. I had been in search of a model that would foster a global and open understanding, one that allowed me to shape my own belief system as I liked, informed by my own experiences and without having to conform to particular dogmas or doctrines.

Laurent Huguelit

#10. country devoid of natural resources, but which enjoys peace, a fair judicial system and a free government is likely to receive a high credit rating. As such, it may be able to raise enough cheap capital to support a good education system and foster a flourishing high-tech industry. The

Yuval Noah Harari

#11. I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

Foster Friess

#12. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Guido Palau

#13. I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.

Isabel Allende

#14. A planetary shield being a fairly straightforward thing, there was hardly ever a problem with the system.

Alan Dean Foster

#15. I can't do this by myself. It requires two security codes to access the full system and shut it down.

Alan Dean Foster

#16. Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century

Samer Chidiac

#17. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.

David Foster Wallace

#18. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Rhea Perlman

#19. As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Dennis Cardoza

#20. There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Anthony De Mello

#21. Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

Norman Foster

#22. There isn't a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

Foster Friess

#23. If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

Shane Claiborne

#24. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

David Foster Wallace

#25. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#26. It's plausibly a case of any kind of system that's been under enormous silent pressure for some time, that when the system finally blows the accreted pressure's such that it's almost always a full-scale eruption.

David Foster Wallace

#27. Because sometimes you need to have nightmares to appreciate the dreams.

Jay McLean

#28. You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

John Mackey

#29. The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

A.B. Simpson

#30. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

Katie McGarry

#31. We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Paul Ryan

#32. Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Michele Bachmann

#33. Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

Ben Bernanke

#34. The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

Trent Reznor